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by ninjin 3y ago
No it would not. They could very well work towards a way to facilitate payments to those that produce code compatible with the Open Source Definition. If they want, have the capacity, and have a good idea in terms of how to do so is a diffe
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by ninjin 3y ago
> It itself is a deliberate watering down of the notion of free software, so it is funny to see it being defended like this. No, because as I pointed out there are more than two camps and there are some of us that find even what OSI appr
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by ninjin 3y ago
Thank you, I was aware of this but looking at my initial comment I did not make this clear and they do deserve credit for communicating honestly and clearly, especially when so many others do not.
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by ninjin 3y ago
There are far more than two camps and FSF was born out of a culture that existed in the 60s and 70s of which the FSF is not a perfect representation either. In fact, several communities carrying that 60/70s spirit and using permissive
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by ninjin 3y ago
I do not buy Martin Tournoij’s argument as it essentially boils down to “no one owns a language” and “there is some prior use that I could find”. Term formation is – as Martin rightfully points out – messy and taking this first-mention ap
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by ninjin 3y ago
It is not open source since it violates the very definition of open source [1]. They (and you) are free to call whatever this license is something else and I am sure there are many great terms, but it is greatly dishonest to use a term ot
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by ninjin 3y ago
I am not sure and I have used systemd through NixOS in particular for a good half a decade now. While I have not tried to fight it, it does come across as being somewhat opaque to me, but I can generally deal with it and have not gone out o
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by ninjin 3y ago
“[N]o interest in performance” is probably a bit unfair, no? It makes it sound like any patch that brought solely performance would be rejected. But it is certainly true that they have much less manpower than the “competition” and that pe
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by ninjin 3y ago
There is further information from de Raadt on impact and mitigations [1]. Hearing that the microcode fixes from AMD does not cover all CPUs that are likely to be vulnerable is not great. Reading “[W]e are setting DE_CFG bit 9 on all the mo
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by ninjin 3y ago
Reality is more complex than that: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Myths#FreeBSD_is_Just_macOS_Without... https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da... You have also had patches go
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by ninjin 3y ago
I think it is sadly not true for the Nintendo Switch [1], so it seems that it is still mainly Apple’s macOS and Sony’s PlayStation 3 and 4 [2,3] (could not find any hard facts on the PlayStation 5, but it is still early days). [1]: https:&
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by ninjin 3y ago
Do not miss out on the man’s homepage either, it contains plenty of his work: https://www.rogerdean.com It even has some fascinating architecture on it; he also has some decent testimonials.
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by ninjin 3y ago
If you have not watched the video, trabant00’s comment will sound somewhat odd. However, the presenter does indeed draw parallels between C and Colonialism around 17:25 into the video, the part about macOS is at roughly 25:30, and the “st
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by ninjin 3y ago
> Frankly, you seem to be looking for controversy where there is none. […] there's a point where it starts to veer into sinophobia. If that is the level of conversation you seek, I will stay out of your conversations. I was happy to
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by ninjin 3y ago
If the owner of a news site has a stake or likely interest in inflating the importance of a specific platform, would you trust that their reporting is entirely accurate? The story looks legitimate, but as others have pointed out, maybe th
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by ninjin 3y ago
I think self-censorship is fairly well documented when it comes to Hollywood and the PRC at this point, but do you have something to back up that demanding “gestures” such as this are commonplace? If so, it is news to me at least and I woul
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by ninjin 3y ago
For those that are curious about the motivations and implementation, I recommend Stefan Sperling’s EuroBSDCon 2019 talk [1] and its slides [2]. You will find examples of the workflow at around 12:30 or from slide 23. [1]: https:/&#x2F
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An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi (1980) [pdf](people.freebsd.org)
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by ninjin 3y ago
If I recall correctly, all system groups should have a leading underscore for OpenBSD. However, they make exceptions for groups that have been around long before this became their standard.
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by ninjin 3y ago
“Seems”? Having spent nearly a decade working for a British entity I can not think of a single case where the bureaucracy has improved. In fact, it has universally in my own (obviously narrow) experience gotten worse! In no other country
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by ninjin 3y ago
It is a crayon license [1], pure and simple. Not to mention that it likely runs afoul of every reasonable definition of open source out there, despite appropriating the term. [1]: https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/
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by ninjin 3y ago
Never tried it myself as I am holding off for the software stack to stabilise. But it certainly looks promising: https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pinephone-pro-keyboard-...
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by ninjin 3y ago
Yes, and you can see how the Met made a complete and utter mess not just with Republic but a number of others as well: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/17/senior-met-o... From memory, they ma
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by ninjin 4y ago
I provided a reference for a portion of lyrics that fairly elegantly summarised the BSD position on freedom – that is it. Besides, it is a song and obviously it will take artistic liberties compared to an essay. If you want to argue minutia
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by ninjin 4y ago
Thank you Vipul, you and the others are really doing god’s work and have the full support of myself and my academic research team, who are eager to push the boundaries with data, prompts, and investigations of whatever you release (in fact,
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by ninjin 4y ago
“This is madness! He has lost his mind! This defies the first law of free trade. Rule zero came before this rule one. Freedom means you cannot dictate to anyone .” (emphasis mine) https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#43
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by ninjin 4y ago
This is interesting, thank you. But then how can any entity in the PRC contribute to open source? Alibaba, Baidu, etc. have released plenty of machine learning code under proper open licenses in the past (not to mention that we have har
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by ninjin 4y ago
There is seemingly a movement or line of thought that blames the success of “big tech” on permissive licenses. You do not see it as much on Hacker News, but it certainly has spread across IRC and many other forums. What is even odder is tha
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by ninjin 4y ago
I can only agree. The number of times we have seen corporations abuse “open source” and “open science” in the context of large language models have been baffling: OPT/LLaMA disallowing commercial usage, BLOOM having an ethical non-open
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by ninjin 4y ago
Drew is known to use everything from MIT to AGPL depending on what he thinks serves the given software best (heck, Hare has a rather complex mixture of licenses [1]). I have in the past disagreed with these decisions, but I think pointing o

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